# Introduction to web sustainability

DevFeed: [Introduction to web sustainability](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introduction-to-web-sustainability-4076.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/introduction-to-web-sustainability/>)

Author: michelle-barker

Published: 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [MDN Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mdn-blog.md>)

Topics: [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [data centers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-centers.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>)

Tags: [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [data-centers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-centers.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [devices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devices.md>), [energy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/energy.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [sustainability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sustainability.md>), [technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [web-applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-applications.md>), [web-designers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-designers.md>)

## AI overview

This article introduces web sustainability by examining the environmental effects of digital technologies, including carbon emissions from electricity use, water consumption by data centers and hardware manufacturing, electronic waste, and resource extraction. It discusses how web designers and developers can build greener websites and web applications.

## Source excerpt

What can web designers and developers do to build a more sustainable web? This post explores the environmental impacts of web technologies and looks at some of the ways we can build greener websites.